The least effort principle explains the most likely way for imbalanced attitude configurations to become balanced

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.


Answer: T

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One of the statistical tools available to personality researchers is the correlation coefficient. Research on which topic has relied most heavily on this statistic?

A. Dream interpretation B. Big Five factors C. Learned helplessness D. Schemas

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You go to Africa to study elephants. You follow one particular group, and one day you observe the other members of the group gather around a sick and dying elephant. The healthy elephants shuffle and trumpet and act in an agitated manner. You conclude that they are sad because one of their members is dying. Without any other evidence, you have just

a. committed the anthropomorphic error. b. become involved in the observer effect. c. engaged in research participant bias. d. created an empirical fallacy.

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An example of the preoperational child's confusion of the mental and the physical is the tendency of many 4-year-olds to believe that dreams are:

a. caused by brain waves. c. real. b. not real. d. clouds.

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There have been four major “forces” in the field of clinical psychology. Which of the following lists these forces in the correct historical order (from earliest to most recent)?

A. Behaviorism, multiculturalism, humanism, and psychoanalysis B. Multiculturalism, humanism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism C. Humanism, psychoanalysis, multiculturalism, and behaviorism D. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, and multiculturalism

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